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a non-fiction graphic novel
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2 copies on order.
Brookline - Teen
TEEN GRAPHIC Best We Could
1 available
TEEN GRAPHIC Best We Could
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
GRAPHIC Best We Could
1 available
GRAPHIC Best We Could
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
GRAPHIC Best We Could
1 available
GRAPHIC Best We Could
1 available
Description
The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States in graphic novel format.
"Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves"--Publisher...
Author
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an inspirational or self-help title
On Shelf
Brookline - Adult
153.35 Gilbert 2015
3 available
153.35 Gilbert 2015
3 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
153.35 Gilbert 2015
1 available
153.35 Gilbert 2015
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
153.35 Gilbert 2015
1 available
153.35 Gilbert 2015
1 available
Description
"From the worldwide bestselling author of Eat Pray Love: the path to the vibrant, fulfilling life you've dreamed of. Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert's books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights into the mysterious...
43) Black Buck
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a satirical novel
On Shelf
Brookline - Adult
SECOND WIND FIC Askaripour, Mateo
1 available
SECOND WIND FIC Askaripour, Mateo
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Askaripour, Mateo
1 available
FIC Askaripour, Mateo
1 available
eAudiobook
eBook
Description
"An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of...
Author
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a book about siblings
On Shelf
Brookline - Adult
FIC Atwood, Margaret
1 available
FIC Atwood, Margaret
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Atwood, Margaret
1 available
FIC Atwood, Margaret
1 available
Checked Out
6 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945.
Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated...
Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated...
45) Boneshaker
Author
Series
Clockwork century volume 1
Notes
An alternative history book
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Description
Inventor Leviticus Blue creates a machine that accidentally decimates Seattle's banking district and uncovers a vein of Blight Gas that turns everyone who breathes it into the living dead. Sixteen years later Briar, Blue's widow, lives in the poor neighborhood outside the wall that's been built around the uninhabitable city. Life is tough with a ruined reputation, but she and her teenage son Ezekiel are surviving--until Zeke impetuously decides that...
Author
Series
Secret, book & scone society volume 3
Notes
a cozy mystery
eBook
Description
"As the owner of Miracle Books, Nora Pennington figures all the wet weather this spring is at least good for business. The local inns are packed with stranded travelers, and among them Nora finds both new customers and a new friend, the sixty-something Sheldon, who starts helping out at the store. Since a little rain never hurt anyone, Nora rides her bike over to the flea market one sodden day and buys a bowl from Danny, a Cherokee potter. It'll make...
47) Booked
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 2
Notes
A book in verse
On Shelf
Brookline - Tween
TWEEN FIC Alexander, Kwame
3 available
TWEEN FIC Alexander, Kwame
3 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Tween
TWEEN FIC Alexander, Kwame
2 available
TWEEN FIC Alexander, Kwame
2 available
Brookline Putterham - Tween
TWEEN FIC Alexander, Kwame
1 available
TWEEN FIC Alexander, Kwame
1 available
eAudiobook
eBook
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Brookline - Children's
J BkOnCD Alexander, Kwame
1 available
J BkOnCD Alexander, Kwame
1 available
Description
"In this follow-up to Newbery-winner THE CROSSOVER, soccer, family, love, and friendship take center stage. Twelve-year-old Nick learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams. Helping him along are his best friend and sometimes teammate Coby, and The Mac, a rapping librarian who gives Nick inspiring books to read. This electric and heartfelt novel-in-verse by poet...
Author
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Book with 24 Letters in the Title
On Shelf
Brookline - Adult
FIC Waxman, Abbi
1 available
FIC Waxman, Abbi
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Waxman, Abbi
1 available
FIC Waxman, Abbi
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Waxman, Abbi
2 available
FIC Waxman, Abbi
2 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Description
""Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful."--#1New York Timesbestselling author Emily Giffin The author of Other People's Houses and The Garden of Small Beginnings delivers a quirky and charming novel chronicling the life of confirmed introvert Nina Hill as she does her best to fly under everyone's radar. Meet Nina Hill: A young woman supremely confident in her own...shell. The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants...
Author
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a book with a number in the title, a book about second chances
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"An utterly heartwarming debut novel filled with fresh starts, unexpected love, and Scottish charm, perfect for readers of Evvie Drake Starts Over. Thea Mottram is having a bad month. Her husband of nearly twenty years has just left her for one of her friends, and to top it off, she is let go from her office job--on Valentine's Day, of all days. Bewildered and completely lost, Thea doesn't know what to do. But when she learns that a distant great...
Author
Series
Notes
a book by an author whose last name starts with the letter ‘C’ - a book set in a library or bookstore
eAudiobook
Checked Out
eBook
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers. But can she write her own happy-ever-after? In this valentine to readers, librarians, and book-lovers the world over, the New York Times-bestselling author of Little Beach Street Bakery returns with a funny, moving new novel for fans of Meg Donohue, Sophie Kinsella, and Nina George's The Little Paris Bookshop. "Losing myself in Jenny Colgan's beautiful pages is the...
51) Brave New World
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Series
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Classics
eAudiobook
Checked Out
6 copies, 39 people are on the wait list.
eBook
Checked Out
3 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Brookline - Audiovisual
BkOnCD Huxley, Aldous
1 available
BkOnCD Huxley, Aldous
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Audiovisual
BkOnCD Huxley, Aldous
1 available
BkOnCD Huxley, Aldous
1 available
Description
Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs and...
52) The broken girls
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a book set at a school
Checked Out
3 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants--the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship blossoming--until one of them mysteriously disappears... Vermont, 2014. As much as she's tried, journalist Fiona Sheridan...
53) Bunny
Author
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a satirical novel
Checked Out
6 copies, 41 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
10 copies, 83 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
10 copies, 83 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything...
Author
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a book by a local author
On Shelf
Brookline - Adult
FIC Tremblay, Paul
1 available
FIC Tremblay, Paul
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Tremblay, Paul
1 available
FIC Tremblay, Paul
1 available
eAudiobook
Available Online
eBook
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Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk...
55) Caleb's crossing
Author
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a book set by the sea
On Shelf
Brookline - Adult
FIC Brooks, Geraldine
2 available
FIC Brooks, Geraldine
2 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Brooks, Geraldine
1 available
FIC Brooks, Geraldine
1 available
Description
A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world...
Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world...
Author
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a book with less than 100 pages
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Checked Out
3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and envisioning instead mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. Love craft's preeminent interpreter S.T. Joshi presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" and "Rats in the Walls," through...
Author
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Classics
eAudiobook
Available Online
eBook
Description
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, is one of America's best-known novels. In his Reader's Companion to this new edition, Daniel Dyer provides a wealth of annotations explaining the book's many "sourdough" expressions and geographical references in order to help the modern reader see what London saw. Dyer also identifies characters in the novel - human and canine alike - whom London had known, and he spices his annotations with Northern lore and...
Author
Series
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A book in verse
On Shelf
42 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Brookline - Tween
TWEEN FIC Bowling, Dusti
1 available
TWEEN FIC Bowling, Dusti
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Tween
TWEEN FIC Bowling, Dusti
1 available
TWEEN FIC Bowling, Dusti
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Tween
TWEEN FIC Bowling, Dusti
1 available
TWEEN FIC Bowling, Dusti
1 available
Description
What do you fear? Dying. Are you likely to die in this situation? Yes. Nora's birthday marks the one-year anniversary of the worst day of her life. To distract them both from the memories of the horrible shooting that killed Nora's mom, her dad surprises her with a trip to explore a slot canyon deep in the Arizona desert. Nora hopes they'll find some remnant of the happiness they felt when her mother was still alive. But in the twisting, winding depths,...
59) Catching fire
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 2
Notes
a sequel to a book you’ve already read
On Shelf
1 copy on order.
Brookline - Teen
TEEN FIC Collins, Suzanne
1 available
TEEN FIC Collins, Suzanne
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Teen
TEEN FIC Collins, Suzanne
1 available
TEEN FIC Collins, Suzanne
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Tween
TWEEN FIC Collins, Suzanne
1 available
TWEEN FIC Collins, Suzanne
1 available
eAudiobook
Available Online
eBook
Checked Out
8 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
8 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Audiovisual
BkOnCD Collins, Suzanne
1 available
BkOnCD Collins, Suzanne
1 available
Description
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Author
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a book set at a school
eAudiobook
Available Online
Description
Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world's best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free. But acceptance...